Akira Takakura

Twenty-Year-Old Youth (1946)

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War II as it encouraged westernization and contrasted with the traditional bow prevalent in that country. ...

Soyokaze (1945)

Sinking the Unsinkable (1944)

Japanese Warmovie ...

Our Planes Fly South (1943)

Suzhou Nights (1941)

A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her wards. Disease outbreaks and family obligations, however, threaten to torpedo their budding romance. ...

Utsukushiki Rinjin (1940)

Warm Current (1939)

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse. ...